NAPIER DEFINITIONS.
Colonel Whitless—- A gentleman getting ' £IOOO per anuum, or more, for nominally‘looking' after an army rather more numerous than that of Bom-
bastesFurioso. , Esquire — Anybody of higher grade than a . , policeman. . Philharmonic Society —A body now moribund. Its oommittee and patrons
wereall. esquires. Shophe&pers—A lovr body ol men that sell ' pickles, : &o. Merchants-^ A genteel'body of men that . sell pickles, &0., in larger quantities. Judge~A. nice ; gentleman, very retiring , . apd taoiturn, fond of inflicting : fine& ‘ Bread' and Putter Ball—A. cheap: but fashionable entertainment. t ! t .. provincial Council —-The collective wisdom
of the; Province—T*?**?, no.mbtqj&e.,. . !1; Napier Band—A. harmless.., and deserving ; ; ; ; .b<idy" of musical 1 1 gam“e fprthe : iri-ipolicie:-':',''-''*' ‘ - v '
Maori^B^resentdtives—A -breatibn ; bf one of the greatest;: efforts'of human folly. Kaipke'x Baifr—A: Province possessing re* soumea, and a -not sarpassed any country in the world.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 79, 13 July 1868, Page 169
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136NAPIER DEFINITIONS. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 79, 13 July 1868, Page 169
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